From: "Mauricio Fernández" <batsman.geo@...>
Date: 2004-01-15T01:16:20+09:00
Subject: [OT] Re: collect! and Enumerable

On Thu, Jan 15, 2004 at 01:11:41AM +0900, Robert Klemme wrote:
> > Does collect! (or map!) make sense for Enumerables? Keep in mind that
> > collect! (aka map!) is defined in Array.
> > I guess you could define it as
> >   module Enumerable
> >     def collect!(&b)
> > to_a.collect!(&b)
> > end
> >   end
> > but I don't feel too bad about having to do to_a explicitly.
> 
> Especially since your definition of collect! would defy users'
> expectations that it would do it in place while it really creates a copy.
> :-)

that's why  "Does collect! (or map!) make sense for Enumerables?", 
but you expressed it so much better ;-)

-- 
 _           _                             
| |__   __ _| |_ ___ _ __ ___   __ _ _ __  
| '_ \ / _` | __/ __| '_ ` _ \ / _` | '_ \ 
| |_) | (_| | |_\__ \ | | | | | (_| | | | |
|_.__/ \__,_|\__|___/_| |_| |_|\__,_|_| |_|
	Running Debian GNU/Linux Sid (unstable)
batsman dot geo at yahoo dot com

And Bruce is effectively building BruceIX
	-- Alan Cox